Best Literary Fiction of 2014

by Anthony Doerr

Doerr captures the sights and sounds of wartime and focuses, refreshingly, on the innate goodness of his major characters. Full review >

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by Siri Hustvedt

Blazing indeed: not just with Harry’s fury, but with agonizing compassion for all of wounded humanity. Full review >

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by Brian Morton

Always a pleasure to read for his well-drawn characters, quiet insight and dialogue that crackles with wit, Morton here... Full review >

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by Lily King

A small gem, disturbing and haunting. Full review >

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by Dinaw Mengestu

Weighted with sorrow and gravitas, another superb story by Mengestu, who is among the best novelists now at work in America. Full review >

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by Eimear McBride

McBride’s debut garnered the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize in 2013 and the Baileys Women’s Prize for fiction in 2014—and... Full review >

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by Roxane Gay

A cutting and resonant debut. Full review >

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by Jeffery Renard Allen

If there’s any justice, Allen’s visionary work, as startlingly inventive as one of his subject’s performances, should propel... Full review >

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by Kathy Page

Page doesn't sentimentalize the cruelty of life in a prison system but manages to transcend it through Simon, who writes his... Full review >

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by Sarah Waters

Waters keeps getting better, if that’s even possible after the sheer perfection of her earlier novels. Full review >

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